"The whole time Gino was making yogurt at home and I was making toppings for the yogurt... And we'd be eating our yougurt and going, "What should we do?" Until one day we were like, wait a minute, we're making this great yogurt every day, this is what we're going to do!"
- Jennie Ammirati, Co-owner of Culture

Joanna Cybulski and Ross Hutchison of Bacon Marmalade
Rumors have been swirling over the past year about Bacon Marmalade, an elusive and highly sought-after invention supposedly created by a chef in Greenpoint. Wide-eyed devotees of ...

Local Roots CSA Founder Wen-Jay Ying
Suddenly, winter is gone. Instead of finding ourselves hunched against swirls of snow, we’re dazzled by flurries of cherry blossoms wafting through the streets. For those of you ...

Editor’s note: Whoo-hoo! Our first photo feature! We’re pleased to introduce another new Nona contributor, Valery Rizzo. Valery is a Park Slope-based professional photographer with a love of good food and ...

Liz Gutman and Jen King of Liddabit Sweets
The Brooklyn Flea has famously become a dream incubator for many fledgling Brooklyn food makers. Stories abound of passionate, hard-working makers and chefs getting a shot to ...

Brian Smith of Fort Greene started selling his Ample Hills made-from-scratch artisanal ice cream from a pushcart at Celebrate Brooklyn last year, and many a bandshell concertgoer found themselves a little startled at just how ...

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The conundrum is clear. New York is a coastal city, surrounded by seas rich with life and towns where fishermen have been harvesting the ocean’s bounty for centuries. Yet it’s next to impossible to buy fresh fish, caught locally, anywhere, even at many docks themselves, where fishermen have exclusive deals with distributors who pump the [...]

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The conundrum is clear. New York is a coastal city, surrounded by seas rich with life and towns where fishermen have been harvesting the ocean’s bounty for centuries. Yet it’s next to impossible to buy fresh fish, caught locally, anywhere, even at many docks themselves, where fishermen have exclusive deals with distributors who pump the [...]